Mortality...

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Otto wrote:

> "There was a tree outside her apartment house on P St. and Brennan had
> climbed up this tree and waited for her to collie out and whenever she did
> he would proclaim his passion for her in loud and improvised blank verse."
> (Mortality And Mercy In Vienna )
>
> What's "to collie out"?
>

Otto: obviously it's "come out" in the original; at least it reads
so in _Stories from Epoch_, Cornell U Press 1966, p. 190. (By the
way, the collection also contains a story by "Donald" DeLillo,
"Take the 'A' Train".) I checked the Pomona online version first,
where it does read "collie out" (as it, e.g., reads "eneverated"
elsewhere, and the Baudelaire quote "Mon semblable" etc. has no
italics. Plus several other lesser errors.)


Heikki

P.S. But this line in Captain Beefheart's "Tarotplane"[from the
originally fuzzy _Mirror Man_ which I kept listening to a lot in
the late 70s/early 80s and only lately got hold of the WONDERFULLY
remastered _Mirror Man Sessions_, just to realize that it is the
greatest album]: "Automatic Sam told Eveready Betty told Prestcold
Millie with the long black wavy mane".

What does "Prestcold" *mean* here?